Auctioneers

A UK gun collector has consigned a target rife owned by legendary Victorian sharpshooter Annie Oakley to auction in East Sussex.

Christie’s will offer one of only six privately owned Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs as part of its Classic Week of sales in London in December.

A grand piano once owned by the celebrated concert pianist Arabella Goddard is back on display where it once held pride of place at Cragside in Northumberland.

A portrait of King Edward VI that sold at a Roseberys auction earlier this year has gone on public display at Hampton Court Palace.

The botanist, artist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871) is thought to have been the first woman to have created a photograph and the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.

Furniture and accessories from the historic country estate Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire are coming to auction.

A Madonna and Child painting, catalogued as by an ‘Italian Old Master’, took an astonishing £685,000 hammer price at an auction in Banbury.

A small group of 20th century woodcuts showing local Sussex scenes were among the pictures bringing demand at the latest Art & Design Post 1880 auction at Gorringe’s (plus 25% buyer’s premium).

Diaries written by Francis Crick (1916-2004), the English molecular biologist who played a crucial role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule, come for sale at Essex firm Sworders this autumn.

The story of James Gillray’s (1757-1815) print plates is something of a mixture of comedy and tragedy – not unlike the great caricaturist’s life itself.

A specially commissioned Dunhill 'aquarium' table lighter marking the victory of an unfancied horse at Ascot sold for £12,500 at auction in Scarborough.